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EU chief plane hit by suspected Russian
GPS jamming

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Posted By: Moritz55, 9/1/2025 11:08:29 AM

The European Commission said on Monday that its president, Ursula von der Leyen, was en route to Bulgaria when her plane faced deliberate GPS jamming. "We can confirm there was GPS jamming but the plane landed safe," said Arianna Podesta, a commission spokeswoman. Von der Leyen's plane landed in Plovdiv airport and she is continuing her planned tour of EU countries bordering Russia and Belarus, Podesta said. The EU chief arrived in Bulgaria on Sunday and met with Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov to discuss European security and defense issues.

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If they can do it to her, what’s to say they won’t try to do it to others — including our President?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: hershey 9/1/2025 11:12:18 AM (No. 1998243)
When I was flying back in the early 60's never had anything like that...aeronautical charts and a dang compass was all we needed...how did we manage to bomb Germany and Japan without GPS???
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Kate318 9/1/2025 12:50:05 PM (No. 1998294)
Those dastardly Russians. They seem to be behind everything.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 9/1/2025 12:53:00 PM (No. 1998296)
Ursula: president of the euroweenies.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Axeman 9/1/2025 1:55:39 PM (No. 1998323)
No big deal. GPS is a convenience, not a necessity.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 9/1/2025 3:34:01 PM (No. 1998347)
Since GPS is often used by various weapons systems, it is common for war zones to have intentionally "spoofed" GPS data, or just jammed and no data available. The intentionally spoofed stuff is super dangerous.....if you trust it you might find a rock in that cloud.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 9/1/2025 3:35:51 PM (No. 1998348)
Re #4, not so for many airlines these days. Often the PRIMARY navigation and landing is done via GPS. Final approaches in very bad weather are most often done with Instrument Landing System (ILS) tech, but many approaches are GPS, and much enroute navigation is GPS these days.
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